Turn back before it's too late

So, you are interested in Malice@doll?

Is there any way I can stop you? Preface

Anyway this is some CRAZY stuff, and I have no idea why you are here, this is like the edges of like anime obscurity. Honestly, you have gone so far into obscurity that you HAVE to watch this.

There is no turning back now, you are far too gone if you are considering Malice@doll.

Before you watch this, I want you take many things in mind.

1. This is from the same writer of Serial Experiments Lain, Texhnolyze, Armitage III, and Ghost Hound, Chiaki J. Konaka.
2. Chiaki is a Cthulhu mythos writer, so most of the stuff he writes is extremely deep in Lovecraftian horror.
3. This film is HIGHLY experimental, I would go on to say that this is the level of an indie film. So, when you go into this don't pay attention to quality of the animation and what not. (It is actually really cool though...)
4. I want you to look at this with 20/20 vision, throw out any concepts of "stereotypical film making" out of your head. This is Chiaki, any work he is involved is is always extremely strange feeling, and uncomfortable.
5. Have fun and just throw concepts of anything out the window.

Review (spoiler area)

Story (7/10):

So you may have watched this and are thinking...What is the story? Well here's my answer: there is not much of any story or plot here, and I think it's done on purpose. First and foremost, we have NOTHING explained, the viewer is just thrown into this unknown world with unknown characters. Now, we can make theories all day but I'll save that for later.

These sex robots have no masters to give them purpose anymore, and they spend everyday as Malice says, "I go out for my daily walk searching for clientele." The robots have nothing, no humans to give them purpose. They simply walk through an abandoned horrific feeling strip of buildings with only their job keeping them there. They rot, and have to visit a repair robot a few times a (week?).

Then, we are introduced into this plot of aliens and stuff. We have a little tentacle porn scene, but it symbolizes much more than an anime girl getting her insides joggled by a big monster. The monster gives her a human body, or in other words, she is born into a body with a consciousness. Then after this she spreads her infection, or "kiss" to everyone. The only thing these dolls are able to do is provide sex, so Malice's only way she knows how to express her love is through a kiss. She spreads her "love", which turns the other dolls into human-like alien monsters. We get some more tentacle action after this, but we are introduced to another idea that is basically just skimped over.

So, tall Japanese lady doll is captured and continually being pleasured by a big alien monster. But what is strange, is that it's implied that Joe Admin killed the alien monster. For what reason?

Think about this, she finds herself captured for a reason. Joe admin is implied to have killed it, for a reason. She exclaims that she doesn't know why he tries so hard to help the dolls. So what is the meaning? These dolls are more like helpless children, caught in one large torture chamber. Only to rot, die away, and be captured by weird aliens. They don't know the meaning of sexual intercourse, they only do it to do it, and this girl is introduced to this through her new human body. The meaning?

Isn't it just like life? We are all helpless children caught in one large torture chamber, and the dolls are more human than robot in how they act. I think Chiaki's idea was to communicate not only this, but the other obvious large theme of the story. Which is, change. Should we change who we are? Is life simply better, slowly rotting and dying? Or is life better to live with pain, quick death and the feeling of being human? Robot, or human, choose.

Animation (9/10)

I went into this thinking I would hate the animation, but for some reason I ended up love it. With the really well done voice acting, and those grotesque nintendo DS full cgi graphics it's just, gross, ugly, imperfect and uncomfortable. I think this is an animation that has aged in a good way, it looks MUCH more scary now than it probably did many years ago. I'll share some of my favorite screenshots.

Voice Acting (10/10)

Probably the best part of this whole thing.

__Conclusion:
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I really have no idea what happened, but all I know is that I am scarred forever. I don't think i can get some of the grotesque imagery of this animation out of my head. I am really not sure what the overall idea is here though. My theory is that the humans were wiped out by aliens and the aliens have taken over the whole surface, and only the robots live deep down in the caves, and Malice happened to stumble upon an alien. Or maybe it was a failed human creation experiment, I am not sure.